Cette guerre dont la menace planait déjà va bouleverser la vie de la famille de l'auteure et celle de toute une région tant de fois déchirée, conquise et reconquise, mais riche de deux cultures.
Après des années de recherches de lettres de soldats en guerre ou captivité pendant le dernier conflit avec l'Allemagne nazie, Jean-Pierre Duhard a pu réunir plus de 2200 correspondances émanant de 300 prisonniers, qui ont fourni la matière à cet ouvrage.
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Christianity reveals how a beleaguered group of followers of a crucified rabbi became the founders of a world-changing faith.
Ce livre résulte des entretiens réalisés par l'auteur entre 1982 et 1984, dans le Morvan, avec Armand Simonnot ancien bûcheron, militant pacifiste puis communiste, premier Franc-Tireur et Partisan de l'Yonne, devenu garde du corps du dirigeant communiste Charles Tillon.
Après avoir souffert de la faim et abandonné un enfant sous X pendant l'Occupation, puis échappé au sort des femmes tondues à la Libération, une jeune Française tente de survivre.
This "e;succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis"e; of Gaza's humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).
Despite the bewildering number of tomes devoted to the Napoleonic wars, much basic data as been hitherto unavailable to anyone other than the most ardent scholars.
Ordered by Hitler 'to hold, or to die' and to fight 'to the last grenade and round', the German army was a formidable opponent during the 1944 Normandy campaign.
The definitive guide to Thailand, providing a comprehensive, beyond-the-basics overview of the country, its history, economy, society, culture, and language.
Ce livre retrace l'histoire vécue par les familles de l'auteur et de son épouse, originaires des Vosges et d'Alsace d'une part, de Bretagne d'autre part.
Le 22 juin 1940, le caporal Léon Noguéro du 49e Régiment d'Infanterie de Bayonne est fait prisonnier par les troupes allemandes dans les Vosges, au hameau les Feignes, les armes à la main.
The German Afrika Korps was an outstanding military organisation that experienced both the height of glory and the depth of defeat in the Western Desert campaign.
The RIA-Novosti press agency – now known as Sputnik in the West – has one of the best archives of Soviet Second World War photographs and for this remarkable book Alexander Hill has made a superb selection of them.
Rare account of a non-German who fought in the elite Waffen-SS New information on the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division No-holds-barred narrative of the Eastern Front This is the story of Erik Wallin, a Swede who volunteered for the Waffen-SS, serving in the panzer reconnaissance battalion of the 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division, a unit composed mainly of volunteers from Scandinavia.
Quatre diplomates français, Jules Blondel, Henri Roux, Charles Colonna-Césari et le marquis Edgar de Kergariou, au péril de leur vie, ont aidé, protégé et sauvé de nombreuses vies de l'enfer nazi.
Lively tales of aerial combat in the legendary Typhoon fighter History of the plane and the men who flew it in World War II Based on interviews with the pilots themselves The Typhoon fighter played a pivotal role in the Allies' success in the air and on the ground in World War II, from the Normandy beachhead to the Battle of the Bulge and the final battle for Germany.
Tadeusz Komorowski was born in 1895 in Galicia, a region then ruled by the Austrians, and he served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War.
This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead.
The Battle for Mametz Wood is normally associated with the endeavours of the 38th Welsh Division and was the first of those great battles to secure possession of the woodlands of the Somme.
Le 15 mai 1940, Robert, « petit Parigot et bureaucrate », tel qu'il se définit, est fait prisonnier non loin de Hannappes, dans les Ardennes françaises.
This new book tells the story of the Ocean class of standard cargo ships, their design, building, and careers, and the author places them firmly in the context of the battle of the Atlantic which was raging at the time of the first launchings.
Comme le déclarait en 1943 le médecin-général Adolphe Sicé, "deux grands hommes auront marqué cette ville: de Brazza, auquel elle doit son nom; de Gaulle, auquel elle doit son destin.
Après des années de recherches de lettres de soldats en guerre ou captivité pendant le conflit avec l'Allemagne nazie, Jean-Pierre Duhard a pu réunir plus de 2200 correspondances émanant de 300 prisonniers, qui ont fourni la matière à cet ouvrage.
The book's title Knowing Why They Lied; Apologetics for Dummies is intended to convey that the average churchgoing Christian might benefit by a handy evangelism tool that anyone, Christian or non, can evaluate, share, or use.
For the first time, leading Second World War authors from around the world have collaborated on a definitive anthology of the greatest snipers of the war.
Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day.
The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.
